Foggy Notion

Check out the Electrosocket replacement jack mounts. These are the upgrade to the original Fender design. These screw into the body instead of being held in place with a retainer clip. https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22538-guitar-shop-101-upgrade-your-tele-with-an-electrosocket-jack-mount

This guitar captures my attention and excites me. I understand the lust and agree. Any details on the body and neck on this beauty? I’ve been looking at MJT necks and bodies. Do not click on this link if relics offend you. https://www.mjtagedfinishes.com

I’d like to hear more about this partscaster Strat. Partscasters, by their nature, are assembled according to the builder’s taste. And my preferences on Fenders are pretty specific so I rarely see a partscaster that I covet. That being said, I’ve considered going the partscaster route as I think about a Strat.

That’s a 1993 Fender “Squier Series” Tele made at the Cort plant in South Korea. Korean Squiers were already being made by the late 80s I believe. But for a brief period before the Mexico plant was built in Ensenada, Fender branded some of their Korean guitars like this one with an actual Fender logo. Some people consider them Fenders, some people consider them Squiers. They used cheaper parts (bodies, pots, tuners, etc) than a “real” Fender, but they have a following and some guys love them. I’m not surprised this one is a player. The ones that have the silver Fender logo and a serial number starting with CN usually have full width plywood bodies. Usually black or white finish. Don’t see many in that color blue. The stock pickups in them should be cheap ceramics. Some guys “upgrade” them, others swear by them. Some guitars are just greater than the sum of their parts.

More pr0n. I picked this up in a trade a few days ago. It’s a 2018 Classic 60th anniversary model. MIM. Limited edition with nitro finish and matching headstock. Still has the plastic on the pickguard. Gonna play it for a while, see how I like it.

I’m mostly a rhythm guy as well, so I don’t need a super fast neck. I’ve come to realize the past few years that I prefer the thicker neck profiles of vintage and reissue style Fenders. I like the way that a C or soft V neck fills the palm of my hand. Chords feel more stable to me on a thicker neck than on a thinner modern style neck. This is all IMO and what works for me. I’ve bought and sold a number of Strats in my Craigslist dealings over the years but didn’t really connect with any of them to keep them. My favorites have been the MIM reissues. I’d like to try an American Vintage reissue. I’m not in a hurry, but I’ve been looking recently to add a Strat back into my collection.

She was married to the kid’s dad. Pretty sure he’s had custody since they split which was before she showed up on TOS. She didn’t have much contact with the kid during the Romeo Rose era, but from her Twitter it looks like she has her on the weekends or at least some weekends now. I‘ve seen her ex. He brought the kid to see Lump’s big graduation speech from the Citizen’s Police Academy that I witnessed last year. He was sitting with the rest of the Lump clan including Lump’s mom and her cuck hubby. It was on a week night so the kid was with him.

I just discovered Ram Jam a couple months ago. Am I late to the Ram Jam party? Never heard of them before, but this video kept popping up in my YouTube feed so I finally clicked on it and ended up going down a Ram Jam rabbit hole. Didn’t notice until now that the long hair on the left isn’t playing anything. He just claps and dances in front of a Marshall, does a little spin once in a while. That’ll be me at the Surly Jam.

He could just be looking for IG follows... But the Kamari smoke could be real. Here’s an article from a few days ago (before Ewers’ commitment) where Texas is mentioned as a leader. Valai putting in work.

It’s a two week delay. If he got arrested yesterday, the mugshot will be released on 08/26.

Might not be documented on this thread, but she also wants to lock up the dirty homeless people who are giving each other haircuts and barbecuing on public roadways.

Totally in. The old APD booking thread at TOS was what brought me to that site and introduced me to the weird wacky world that is Surly. Thanks Mitch! p.s. I scrolled through the 29 pages of available mugshots (July 8-22) and spotted a few familiar faces including Dirty Vegas (Richard DiGiacomo).

New statement from Perry’s lawyers...

The Austin Acoustics. You can see a bunch pics of a mini-camp they had here: http://www.texreview.com/2016/01/austin-acoustics-mini-camp-for-legends.html And one pic of FitLump...

Looks like things have been fairly tame so far despite lots of open carry folks downtown earlier. A few skirmishes between protesters and cops on bikes and horses, but nothing major. Buses were finally spotted, but turns out they were full of DPS troopers, not protesters from Portland.

Troxclair with the bus talk...

The documents that were released on Thursday were not all of the documents that were set to be released. Another set of documents related to Maxwell’s 2016 deposition were supposed to be released on Monday pending a decision by the Second Circuit of the Court of Appeals. The Second Circuit delayed the release yesterday. FWIW, two judges who granted the delay are both Clinton appointees.

Larry King asked them in 2005. They told a similar story about meeting at a party during Fashion Week.

I found one mention of this on Twitter. Sounds like BS. But to Art’s point about something bad brewing...

I wouldn’t call this “proof”, but the New York Times wrote an article last year about Trump and Epstein’s relationship. According to NYT, Epstein was the one claiming that he introduced them. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-epstein.html “But while Mr. Trump has dismissed the relationship, Mr. Epstein, since the election, has played it up, claiming to people that he was the one who introduced Mr. Trump to his third wife, Melania Trump, though neither of the Trumps has ever mentioned Mr. Epstein playing a role in their meeting. Mrs. Trump has said that her future husband simply asked for her phone number at a party at the Kit Kat Club during Fashion Week in 1998.“ (Melania told story about meeting Trump at the Kit Kat Club in a 2017 Vanity Fair profile.) Also from the above NYT article... “Roger J. Stone Jr., the former Trump adviser, wrote in his book “The Clintons’ War on Women,” which was published during the campaign, that Mr. Trump “turned down many invitations to Epstein’s hedonistic private island and his Palm Beach home.” Once when Mr. Trump visited Mr. Epstein at his Palm Beach home, Mr. Stone wrote about the scene of underage girls he witnessed there. “The swimming pool was filled with beautiful young girls,” Mr. Trump later told a Mar-a-Lago member, according to Mr. Stone. “‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’”

I can’t reveal my source, but it’s solid. The driver is not a cop.